From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 10:04:59 EDT
At 01:48 PM 8/30/00 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Phil. 2.7
>
>hEAUTON EKENWSEN MORFHN DOULOU LABWN
>EN hOMOIWMATI ANQRWPWN GENOMENOS
>KAI SCHMATI hEUREQEIS hWS ANQRWPOS
>
>Oepke states that there is an omitted object that needs to be supplied.
>Ruling out ETAPEINWSEN hEAUTON as the implied object (which creates a weak
>tautology), Oepke opts for TOU EINAI ISA QEWi.
>
>Since we are dealing with a person and not a quality or thing, KENOW seems
>to me to mean, "to disrobe or divest oneself temporarily."
>
>Which I guess would yield:
>
>"He disrobed himself of equality with God by taking on the semblance/form of
>a servant."
>
>Is this how one would supply the missing object?
well done! that is an excellent solution to the problem.
>Can KENOW be used in a Passive sense? In TDNT, pg. 661, I can not tell if
>the author is saying this or not, but he gives the following: pass. "to come
>to nothing."
that would really be "to be brought to nothing". "to come to nothing"
sounds active or at best middle.
>
>I am having a hard time even exploring this possibility with the hEAUTON
>present. Does this reflexive pronoun eliminate any passive possibilities?
eliminate? no, not really- but it does make the middle more likely.
>
>Or, would it be acceptable to translate this like:
>
>"by means of receiving the semblance/form of a servant, he was disrobed of
>equality with God."
no- because it isnt passive in form.
>
>Again, I have no idea what to do with hEAUTON if I take this as passive.
good-- then dont. because it isnt.
>
>Also, are the following translations possible?
>
>Taking LABWN as Purpose:
>
>"He disrobed himself of equality with God in order to take on the
>semblance/form of a servant."
nope. you are eisegeting here.
>
>or, Adverbially:
>
>"He disrobed himself of equality with God when he took on the semblance/form
>of a servant."
>
no- because the construction isnt adverbal. stick with your first attempt
above. it is the most cogent.
best,
Jim
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